Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-12-23
NEWS SUMMARY.

The majority I'm North Dakota against
division 10 exactly l00l. In South Dako'
Ia the ma jority in IA or Of division il 49,
S3S.
The Salt Lake chamber OF commerce has
adopted a resolution against the reduc-
tion of the tariff on lea and cad ores.
Grand Master Workman Powderly IL
$ eriously i'll at his home In Scranton. Pa.
The city council OF Atlanta, Ga, has
fixed 81, tO) as the cost OF n retail liquor
dea er's license The ordinance restricts sa-
looms to certain streets AMI provides for
strict regulations.
Henry 4. Ives, the Napoleon OF
finance" whose speculations on Wall
street have brought him into great noto-
rety, has been arrested charged with
stealing 100000 from the Cincinnati
Hamilton a. Dayton road.
There have been docketed for trial at
the next term Of the Foster county, Ind.
circuit court suits against the Chicago n
Atlantic railroad. rowing out OF the dis
aster at Koutz, Ind, aggregating 80, J0i.
The Tortilla gold and silver mining com
pany exposed by the New y ork Herald as
fraud, has sued the Herald for $500 900
libel damages, and the president Joseph
H. Real, sues James Gordon Bennett in
dividually for $3.50, 900. IL Is asserted that
the Herald's alleged examination Of the
mine was untrue.
Lees summit, a thriving little town 90
miles west Of Kansas City, was destroyed
10y fire on the 10th inst.
a Strasser, at the head OF the cigar
makers union, says the knights OF labor
have only II 100 active members to day,
and that the organization will have lost
all IL, prestige in two years and that it is
still fighting the trades union.
meeting of the Kelley motor company
was held IN Philadelphia the other day, at
which time 1000 shares were represented
Kelly is still working on his scheme ana
/, getting nearer TO success every day
Iowa iuor men lose hope because all
liquor cases in the federal court have been
remanded back to the state court.
Gan immense raid on Oklahoma next
spring i, being organi zed in Kansas.
Five persons were instantly killed and
.everal Others seriously injured by the ex.
ploslon OF an SJ-horsspower boiler in the
Edison electrical works at West Chester,
Ia.
Five or six years ago a cotton-mill was
established at Char eston, =. c., at cost
OF $4,000. The mill Is now on the verge
OF bankruptcy, caused 10y inability TO So
cure enough white labor to keep the
machinery going. Today there are but
Charleston people in the mill out OF a
force OF 400. The stockholders may try to
run the mill entirely with Negro hands.
The American federation of labor fin.
ished its sessions In Baltimore on the 10th
inst, and Will meet at st. Louis next year.
The chief business transacted was the re-
ducing OF the per capita tax to one-fourth
OF a cent per month, with an annual state
tx or <35. IL was decided to firmly resist
the encroachments OF the knights OF labor.
Whisky trust certificates issued TO date
amounts TO tl50O0,0o0.
Total immigration to Canada from Jan.
TO November 80 was l3,, l62 against 30, 40.
last year; emigrants from Canada 10 the
l nited States, 6h62l against A., $50 in 1856.
Commodorein-Chief Rea Of the grand
army OF the republic has appointed Rus
sci A. Alger, Detroit Mich; II. II.
Thomas, Chicago, Ill. f. z. Tyler Culver
ton, Md; William Warner, Kansas City,
Mo-, as the Logan memorial committee to
cooperate with similar Tennessee com
mittee.
An unsatisfed mortgage dated lsiJ ha
been found, which affects the title to IA
about one-sixth OF Shamokin, Pa. The
amount Of the mortgage was originally
$1,000. The sheriff has officially notified
the land-holders that be Will sell the
property December 30